Cohere just dropped Transcribe, its first open-source speech recognition model designed for note-taking and voice analysis. Weighing in at 2 billion parameters, it runs on consumer GPUs, processes 525 minutes of audio per minute, and supports 14 languages. It topped the Hugging Face Open ASR leaderboard with a 5.42 WER, and Cohere is also offering free API access.
Cohere just acquired Ottogrid, an automated market research startup, to fold its smart table and document extraction capabilities directly into its workplace assistant North. Ottogrid will sunset its standalone tool, shifting its focus entirely to helping knowledge workers scrape web data and enrich spreadsheets inside Cohere's enterprise ecosystem.
A new joint study from Cohere, Stanford, MIT, and Ai2 accuses popular benchmark LM Arena of favoring tech giants like Meta, OpenAI, and Google. The researchers found that big labs were granted extensive private testing to cherry-pick winning variants and received higher battle sampling rates. LM Arena pushed back against the claims as inaccurate, but promised to update its sampling algorithm.
Cohere just launched Rerank 3.5, a cross-encoder model designed to boost enterprise search and cut hallucinations in RAG pipelines. It tackles complex reasoning across over 100 languages and sets new high marks in finance and ecommerce benchmarks. AWS customers can already deploy it via a single Amazon Bedrock API call.
Cohere just launched Rerank 3 Nimble, a new foundation model built for enterprise search and RAG workflows. It delivers roughly 3x faster performance than Rerank 3 while keeping high retrieval accuracy, but it is currently exclusive to Amazon SageMaker.
World leaders and 16 frontier AI companies just signed landmark safety commitments at the AI Seoul Summit. Ten nations and the EU agreed to launch an international safety research network, while tech giants including OpenAI, Google, and China's Zhipu.ai pledged to halt the deployment of any model if risks breach predefined thresholds. Why it matters: It is the first time leading AI labs across the US, Europe, and China have formally aligned on explicit red lines.
Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque just pushed back against acquisition rumors, stating the company has never reached out to anyone to be acquired. Mostaque highlighted that the startup maintains simple governance, works with multiple strategic partners with more announcements ahead, and gave shoutouts to Jasper and Cohere.
You.com just rolled out a set of APIs designed to give any large language model real-time access to the open web. Rather than short click-focused snippets from Bing or Google, it provides long-snippet indexes and RAG context starting at $100 per month. Anthropic, Cohere, and LlamaIndex have already integrated it.
Oracle is partnering with AI startup Cohere to launch a new generative AI cloud service, founder Larry Ellison revealed during an earnings call. The move directly targets Microsoft's Azure OpenAI, promising enterprise clients a safe way to train specialized models on proprietary data. Oracle recently joined Cohere's $270M funding round and has already started using the service internally.
Cohere just released The Embedding Archives, open-sourcing around 100 million multilingual embedding vectors across 10 languages from Wikipedia. Available on Hugging Face, the 768-dimensional vectors also come with a 10-million subset hosted on Weaviate for direct semantic search. Why it matters: Developers can skip the slow, costly process of text chunking and vectorization when building search engines.
